Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax
by zozbot234 on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @03:34PM
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Retirement benefits were always a terrible deal; no one should be putting all of their eggs in one basket. We should enable people to simply and easily save for their own retirement, without banking on totally-unrealistic rates of return that are never going to materialize.
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Re:Modeling a Wealth Tax
by monoideism on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @04:29PM
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> We should enable people to simply and easily save for their own retirement
Perhaps that would be reasonable if everyone were paid enough income to handle all their expenses and save for retirement. Of course, that's not the case for probably 30-40% of the population. As things stand now, it's just cruel to lecture those people that they "should have done a better job of saving" (and I hear that a lot these days).